Tauranga has the highest uptake of Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) in the country, according to new data.
The city's uptake rate is just under 11 per cent, with the UFB network almost 60 per cent complete, ahead of the uptake in Palmerston North, Whangarei (where the network is complete), Auckland and Wellington.
The figures are part of the latest data as of June 2014, which will be published shortly by Crown Fibre Holdings, the government entity running the project.
"The big learning is that in Tauranga you've had strong retailers supporting UFB and there's a lot of laid network available," said Brett Morris, marketing manager for Ultra Fast Fibre, which is responsible for laying fibre in Tauranga and a number of other provincial cities including Hamilton, New Plymouth and Whanganui.
"Some of the other regions are still less networked," he said.